Deep Space Drifter:
Interactive Fiction by Michael J. Roberts and Steve McAdams

Copyright (c) 1990, 1996 by Michael J. Roberts and Steve McAdams.
All Rights Reserved.

This package was prepared October 27, 1996.

This software is being distributed as freeware.  You may use and redistribute
it subject to the usual freeware rules; see LICENSE.DSD for full details.


The TADS Run-Time
-----------------

In order to play Deep Space Drifter, you need the TADS Run-Time
module.  To make the Deep Space Drifter distribution file smaller, we
distribute the TADS Run-Time module separately.  You should be able
to find the file TADS2RUN (usually with an extension indicating the
type of compression utility used, such as .ZIP or .SIT) from the same
place you got Deep Space Drifter.

Notes for DOS users
-------------------

To run the game, type:    TR DEEP

On PC's, you can edit command lines with the arrow keys and other standard
editing keys.  Review Mode (described in DEEP.DOC) is activated with
function key F1.

Saved games are stored in standard DOS files, by default in the current
directory (the directory from which you start the game), so make sure
you have free disk space before you begin playing.


About TADS
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TADS is a programming system that lets you write your own professional-
quality text adventure games.  TADS uses a high-level, C-like object-oriented
language.  The system comes with a compiler, the run-time system, a source
file that implements a large set of common adventure objects, on-line
documentation, and the source for a complete sample game.  TADS is
freeware.



ABOUT HIGH ENERGY SOFTWARE
--------------------------

High Energy Software formerly distributed TADS as a shareware system,
but is no longer in business.  Mike Roberts, the developer of TADS,
is now maintaining and distributing the system as freeware.  We have
made an effort to remove references from these files to High Energy
Software and its former telephone and other contact information,
since all of those numbers and addresses are no longer in service.
If we inadvertantly left any such references intact, please disregard
them, since they're oversights.